A/HRC/15/60
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The right to development
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations and the core human rights instruments,
Reaffirming the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the General
Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986,
Reaffirming also its resolutions 4/4 of 30 March 2007 and 9/3 of 17 September
2008, and recalling all Commission on Human Rights, Council and General Assembly
resolutions on the right to development,
Recognizing the renewed commitments to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals by their target date of 2015, as set out in the outcome document adopted at the Highlevel Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the Millennium
Development Goals,
Emphasizing the urgent need to make the right to development a reality for
everyone,
Stressing the primary responsibility of States for the creation of national and
international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development,
Recalling that 2011 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the
Right to Development,
Expressing its appreciation for the efforts of the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the
Working Group on the Right to Development and the members of the high-level task force
on the implementation of the right to development in completing the 2008–2010 threephase road map established by the Council in its resolution 4/4,
Taking note of the efforts under way in the framework of the Working Group on the
Right to Development, with a view to completing the tasks entrusted to it by the Council in
resolution 4/4,
1.
Welcomes the report of the Working Group on the Right to Development;40
2.
Takes note with appreciation of the efforts made by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with regard to the promotion,
mainstreaming and realization of the right to development, including the support provided
to the Working Group;
3.
Decides:
(a)
To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances
sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and,
in this regard, lead to raising the right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of
the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, to the same level and on a par with all
other human rights and fundamental freedoms;
(b)
To endorse the recommendations of the Working Group as outlined in
paragraphs 45 to 47 of its report;
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